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January 19, 1982
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by Barbie Woelfel
Battalion Reporter
Fraternity and sorority
ouses are popping up all over
ryan-College Station, and
ince Texas A&M University
loesn’t recognize the social
•oups, they must Find their
|wn sources of financial backing
to pay for these houses.
T One such house, located on
Sorority Row” at Athens Drive
Jnd Olympia Way in College
Itation, is owned by Kappa
Jpha Theta sorority.
The house was purchased
Ihrough a loan made by the
Torority's house corporation
oard. Members living in the
louse pay $1,300 a semester,
/hich covers board, utility bills
ind rent, said Louise Davis, a
junior Kappa Alpha Theta
nember.
Part of the $ 1,300 also goes to
he house corporation board for
oan payments on the house,
Davis said.
The Theta house, located at
1503 Athens Drive, was built last
iiimmer. It houses 40 girls and
me house mother who cooks for
he girls.
The Chi Omega house, at
1501 Athens Drive, was built
three years ago. Jennie Stewart,
a junior Chi Omega member
and house resident, said Chi
Omega pledges began paying a
house fee one year before the
house was built.
Out of 80 active members,
the 27 Chi Omega members liv
ing in the house also pay appro
ximately $1,300 a semester for
rent, utilities and board, Stewart
said. The sorority also has a live-
in house mother who works on
the house budget, makes purch
ases for the house and plans
menus for three meals a day.
“We go on a point system to
decide who can live in the
house,” Stewart said. “It in
cludes grades, classification,
offices held and number of
years in the sorority. All officers
are required to live in the
house.”
The Kappa Kappa Gamma
sorority has its house at 1502
Athens Drive. Shannon Wilson,
house chairman for the Kappas,
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said Kappa alumni throughout
the state, along with loan pay
ments made by the house board
and the corporation board, pay
for the house.
Sorority Row is zoned pri
marily for sorority houses,
therefore fraternity members
must locate their houses else
where.
Steve Smith, social chairman
and Intra-Fraternity Council
representative for Sigma Chi,
said the fraternity made its
home four years ago in a seven-
bedroom house located 1.5
miles out Dowling Road south of
College Station.
“Since our fraternity is a non
profit organization, we must go
through a housing corporation
composed of alumni who make
our house payments for us,”
Smith said.
Each of the nine men living in
the Sigma Chi house pay $95 for
rent and $100 for board each
month, he said. Fraternity mem
bers remodeled the house a few
years ago adding a bar and a
deck, enabling the members to
have parties in the house.
Gary Roden, Sigma Chi pres
ident, said the house and its five
acres are worth approximately
$200,000.
Information on the value of
the other fraternity and sorority
houses was not available.
Pat McCaa, secretary-
treasurer of Alpha Gamma Rho,
said its members moved into
their house at 418 College Main
in September 1978.
Three loans made by an
alumni corporation paid for the
house, where nine undergradu
ate Alpha Gamma Rho mem
bers live. Each member pays
$100 a month rent, McCaa said.
But not all fraternities and
sororities can afford to buy their
own houses.
The Phi Gamma Delta frater
nity, known as the Fijis, rents a
five-bedroom house at 1414
South College in Bryan.
Lonnie Copps, Fiji president,
said the organization has been
renting the house since August
1978 and pays $600 rent month
ly, which is handled through a
board of chapter members.
Singing auditions held
in MSC through Friday
Springsemester auditions for Student Center,
the Texas A&M Singing Cadets, Auditions, which will be held
Century Singers, Reveliers and from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., can be
Women’s Chorus will be held scheduled in 003 MSC or by call-
through Friday in 003 Memorial ing 845-5974.
Doc says use oil
to fight cold weather
ruin t A < UX ess international
CHICAGO — Vegetable oi
j-not petroleum jelly — shoulc
r Use ^ to keep lips and skir
, m tracking in the winter chill
CemmtQbgist says. That is, i
mind smelling like ;
In a news release Monday,
Dr. David Cornbleet recom
mended smearing vegetable oil
on the face and lips to counter
act the cold, warning that miner
al oil and petroleum jelly are not
acceptable substitutes.
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“We have two sets of income:
rent and dues,” Copps said.
“Rent comes from four people
living in the house who pay $ 110
monthly. Certain amounts are
set out from dues for utility
costs, the house fund, rent and
social activities.”
The Delta Tan Delta fraterni
ty rents its house from the own
ers of Texas Hall of Fame.
Rob Crammer, correspond
ing secretary and scholastic
chairman of Delta Tan Delta,
said the six-bedroom house, be
hind the Hall of Fame, houses
nine people who each pay $ 100 a
month for rent.
Fraternity officers are re
quired to live in the fraternity
house, Crammer said.
The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house is just one of the sorority houses along Sorority Row in College Station.
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